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X Commomvealth Sorrowed by Death of King -I VI IV 1 LONDON BriUln lost a klnr. rlned s Bew queen and hailed a new prospective Prince of Wales Wed nesday. The photo of King Georre VL with his danshter, the new Queen Elisabeth, was one of the last ever taken of the pair torether, shortly before Elizabeth left on her current world tour. The inset shows Prince Charles, son of Elizabeth and her husband. Prince Phillip, taken on his recent birthday. He is expected some, day to be Prince off Wales, (AP Wlrephoto by radio from London.) DIP ftKDCOXH Once again it is Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. The sudden death of King George VI cut short the tour of his daughter and propelled her to the throne of the kingdom. His serious illness had served as warning to the country, however, and Elizabeth was preparing her self for the royal duties she now must -assume. Since the days of the Stuarts the power of the reigning monarch in England has been greatly cur tailed. Rule by divine right is a mere historic shibboleth now. Britain is fully self-governing, with power lodged in the elected representatives (the Commons) completely since the last Labor government wiped out the last vestige of veto power retained by the House of Lords. But while; the! Mag or queen is theoretically only the symbol to unite the peoples and countries of the Commonwealth, in practice the ruler may exercise consider able influence on the course of events. It was King George him self who by request rather than command restrained Prime Min ister Churchill from being, in on the invasion of France on D-day. In more important matters it is quite probable that the royal opin ion is consulted. The ruler is kept fully informed of the affairs of state. He is shorn of real power, however. Edward, Duke of Wind sor, when king, complied with the pressure of Prime Minister Bald win that he abdicate if he was de termined to marry "that woman"; and Edward assented rather than provoke a constitutional crisis. The Crown yielded to Commons (and to the Archbishop of Canterbury). Of Queen Elizabeth it is safe to say that she will conform to (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Chicago Political Chief Shot to Death CHICAGO (-Charles Gross, 55, acting Republican committee man in the 31st ward, was shot to death Wednesday night at Kedzie and North Acenues on the North Side. Gross was felled by shotgun blasts from a parked car, which sped away after the shooting. Gross had just alighted from his auto to purchase a newspaper. Police said his widow, Ethel commented, "I was afraid of this," but would not enlarge on the statement. Lid off Popcorn WASHINGTON (p) - Popcorn popped out of control Wednesday night. The OPS pulled the price lid off the delicacy. It said there is no inflationary pressure in this 50 million dollars a year industry.' Animal Crackers gy WARREN GOODRICH "Don't be crude. W3bwr. I can't My rece unfit I've tfe&Vered the funeral reKonP ' v is.. - - ' tM 4' X v -'' V V ' f', X e. ..- ff jPNTSXk. tV J, jS -V v LONDON" A weeping woman and aad-faeed schoolgh-l were among the sorrowing Londoners In Down ing Street alter announcement of the death of King George VL New of the king's death shocked the nation, which had been deeply worried abeat his health. Lower photo shows a grieving crowd gath ering early this morning at Buckingham Palace. The palace blinds were drawn aa Britain went into mourning. The king died at his country residence, Sandrlngham. (AP Wlrephotoe by radio from London.) 4 7 IK i & tl f f i i i I i 3 H If '.rM W t?j In 25-Year-Old Queen Elizabeth Dries Her Eyes, Hastens Home to Assume Duties as Sovereign NAIROBI, Kenya Colony JP) The slight, 25-year-old Princess who has trained since Childhood for the responsibilities of the British Crown headed home sor rowfully as a Queen Wednesday night to take up the royal duties left her by her father's sudden death. Princess Elizabeth burst into tears when her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, broke the news from London of the death of King George VI, but toon re gained her composure. "She was every inch a queen," a source at the royal lodge told 101st YEAR 18 PAGES iS 3 King I reporters. Cutting short a projected five month, 30,000-mile royal tour that was to have taken them on to -Ceylon, Australia, New Zea land and other British regions, Elizabeth and the Duke are go ing home by plane. The couple flew from Nairobi to Entebbe, Uganda, Wednesday night and transferred there to a four-englned Argonaut liner. Britain's first woman ruler since Victoria reigned 51 years ago, is due to reach London at 4:30 p. m. Thursday. It was only last Thursday that The Oregon Statesman, George Dies in U.N. Cuts PW Plan ands MUNSAN, Korea (P-U. N. command negotiators Thursday dropped their demand that excess prisoners of war in Allied hands be exchanged for displaced civil ians now in Communist territory. Under the original proposal, the Allies wanted to exchange pris oners of war on a man-for-man basis. The Reds had said they held 11,559 Allied troops. Then the Allies wanted to ex change the rest of the Red troops they hold some 121,000 for dis placed civilians in Communist hands. While staff officers now negoti ating the prisoner exchange issue gave ground on the POW-civilian swap, they held firm to the prin ciple of voluntary repatriation. They insist that no one can be sent back to the other side against his wishes. , The .Allies made no reply to a new Communist peace plan which ignored South Korea and Injected Formosa and other tense Far Eastern issues into final settle ment of the Korean War. Ike Campaign Official Visits Salem Men Wes Roberts, executive director of the Eisenhower-For-President organization was in Salem Wed nesday, fresh from national ttead quarters in Washington, D. C. He conferred with several local Republicans, including William I. Phillips, chairman of the Oregon Eisenhower-For - President group and Rep. Mark Hatfield, it execu tive secretary. Roberts left for Portland Wed nesday night. He had no comment to make regarding the attorney general's opinion that only a court order or sponsors' withdrawal could remove Gen. Dwight Eisen hower's name from the Democra tic primary ballot in Oregon. Roberts is a former Republican state chairman in Kansas, the gen eral's home state. Bloodmobile in Salem Today The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the downtown Armory in Salem today from noon to 8 pjn., Red Cross official report. There are approximately 174 signed up for donating blood on this visit which, according to the local office, is below the needed quota. LEO CARILLO ILL SANTA MONICA, Calif. (JP) -Screen and television actor Leo Carillo underwent surgery Wed nesday and will remain at Santa Monica Hospital for five or six days, his physician said. Spell-Down! The following words are among those which may be used In fiie 195X Oregon Statesman KSLM Spelling Contest semi finals and finals. They are from standard textbooks ' and are published as a gnlde in lntra eheel contests new underway. miner pneumonia orchard quandary provide 'section respectfully weather total anxiety Christmas director excitement gown frighten influence honorary mourn lawyer knowledge Dem she left London, bidding good bye to the King after earnestly scanning his tired, lined face. She and the Duke were substi tuting for him on the tour be cause of the ill health that had plagued . him in recent years. Elizabeth and her husband left their two children, Charles and Anne, at home. Prince Charles, 3, becomes heir apparent to the throne. Be cause he now is first in line for the; throne after his mother. Prince Charles outranks his fa ther in matters of precedence. Queen Elizabeth II could, and POUNDOD 1651 Salem, Oregon. Thursday, February 7, 1952 Runaway Boxcars Speed 17 Miles, Crash at Town HEPPNER, Ore. (JP) Two rail road freight cars broke loose on a downgrade Wednesday and rolled unimpeded down a spur line for 17 miles, picking up speed all the way, until they flashed into the town of lone. There station master William Bering, warned by telegraph, threw a switch that derailed the cars with a resounding crash. Wheel trucks flew off and lumber, which was loaded on the steel cars, was scattered far. There were no damages to any thing, though, except the two cars. There was no accurate esti mate of their speed when they raced into lone, but one motorist on the road between Heppner Brannan Fires Officials In Grain Shortage Case WASHINGTON (P) Secretary Brannan fired two regional offi cials of the Agriculture department Wednesday for "administrative deficiencies and inadequacies" which he related to losses of govern ment grain stored in commercial warehouses. The ousted officials are Latham White, director, and Harry James Solomon, assistant director, of the department's commodity office at Dallas, Tex. Dallas is a focal point of the current investigation of grain shortages. White said in Dallas he did not think the charges justified his or Solomon's dismissal. Several ' storage concerns In the Dallas area have been accused of converting more than $2,500,000 worth of government grain stored w ; wiiu uivriii j men vjwu uavr, iii&i-li i ly for speculative purposes. Taken Off Duty f Brannan announced that SVhite and Solomon were taken off duty more than a month ago pending further investigation, and now have been discharged effective Friday. In the letters to the two men, outlining charges against them, the department said they had in effect made inadequate inspections of storage concerns holding gov ernment grain in their area. It said they had been slow to act when firms which eventually showed up short failed to follow government instructions to load grain for ship ment elsewhere. Accepted Gifts The department said also they had accepted gifts and gratuities from concerns with which their offices did business, in violation of department regulations, and had apparently condoned acceptance of similar favors by employes under them. Brannan said none of the gifts were from firms Involved in the grain shortages. Meanwhile, a survey showed the government has gone to court against 15 storage concerns in va rious parts of the country in an effort to collect $4,875,000 in short ages of farm commodities stored with them under a farm price sup port program. Steelmen Say 'Fringe Benefits' Triple Union's Pay Demands NEW YORK (flV The steel In dustry argued Wednesday that -fringe benefits" sought by CIO steel workers cloaked a wage de mand of close to 60 cents an hour or more than triple the straight pay increase the union is asking. The union is demanding an 18 Mi cent-an-hour pay rise. Industry spokesmen said demanded fringe benefits increased rates for holi days, vacation, overtime, prem iums for working at night and similar items would cost on ad ditional 39.69 cents. Spokesman for steel also con tended that the union demand for elimination of geographical dif ferences in pay, if granted, would is expected to, name Edinburgh "Prince Consort" by "letters patent" and rank him second to the Queen ahead of little Char ley. Since she was 10, Elizabeth has been specially schooled to take the throne some day If nec ecessary. On her 21st birthday, as heiress presumptive, she ded icated her life to the Empire. Elizabeth U is a great-great-great - great - granddaughter o f George III, the sovereign in whose reign the American colon ies separated themselves, by re bellion, from the British Empire PRICE and lone said they passed him when he was doing 80 miles an hour. They broke loose from a train while it was switching cars at the Heppner Lumber Co., here. The engineer put the train in re verse in an attempt to catch the runaways, but he was left far behind. There is an 815 -foot drop in elevation between Hepp ner and lone. Nearly the same thing happen ed 1 1 years ago. Then two empty passenger cars broke loose at Heppner. That time they got through lone and rolled 40 miles, getting within 7 miles of the main Union Pacific track along the Columbia River, before being de railed. Gear Weather Curbs Rivers Willamette Valley streams and morning temperatures have drop- red in the face of rontlnuf d - - Spring-like weather more of wiicn is preaiciea lor loaay. The Marion County approach to the Willamette River bridge at In dependence, however, remained flooded -early today. The Willam ette had receded to about 16 feet at Salem this morning and was reported to be dropping steadily. Arrival of a storm for Western Oregon loomed for a time on the weatherman's chart early Wed nesday. But by late Wednesday night the prediction for today changed to a continuing of the mild weather, which saw a sub freezing mercury reading of SO Wednesday morning. The State Highway Commission reported the Wilson ville Ferry continued out of operation Wed nesday due to high water. All other state highways were report ed open. Mix. 54 55 Mln. 34 55 43 28 U SaJem Portland .M J00 J .02 .00 San Francisco 60 Chicago 31 New York .. 44 Willamette River 18 J feet FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau, McNary Field. Salera): Partly cloudy today and tonight. Little tem perature changes. High today. S3 to 53; low tonight. 33 to 37. Salem tem perature at U.-01 a m. today was 3a. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ( Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Tear Last Year Nennal 32.90 33.14 23 -1 upset the nation's entire economy and price the Southern Industry out of the market. The arguments were presented before a Wage Stabilization Board panel which is attempting to re solve a contract dispute and stave off a threatened Feb. 23 strike of 650,000 steel workers. John H. Morse, counsel for the Bethlehem Steel Corp.. led the industry's attack on the union "fringe demands. He said they would cost 39.69 cents an hour In addition to the 18 H -cent general wage demand, for an overall increase ox about 58 cents an hour. - in the eighteenth century" j The line of descent is Oorz III to Edward, his fourth son. t Queen Victoria, to Edward VII. to George V, to George VI, xatb-. er of Elizabeth. - i ' Elizabeth is the 62nd sovereiga of Britain since Egbert becam King of Wessex and England te 827 A. D. and the 42pd sine William the Conqueror." In tw cases, those of thelbald Ethelbert in 858 and cf.WU5aa and Mary in 1689, two tovereig&a ruled jointly. t ' She is the seventh reigaieg Queen in British history. - Bail 5c No. II Flying to London f LONDON VPr-Kins George iTI died in his sleep Wednesday, and' as the British Empire mourned, the new Queen Elizabeth II sor rowfully hurried home from A-" rica to take the throne of Britai and to bury the father she loved. It will be just' one week smee she set out, as Princess Elizabeth, to carry the royal name, around the world on a tour designed e strengthen the bonds of the Coco monwealth. She was in; Kenya, Africa, when she received ithe word that she had become Queca in the early hours of Wednesday " when death took George VI, j in his sleep at Sandringham Cas tle, j Charles Heir . . . . S Now 3-year-old Pstnce; Charles, son of Elizabeth and the Puke el Edinburgh, becomes, heir to 'tre throne. - I Elizabeth is Britain's first wom an ruler since Victoria,. w bo died 31 years ago. f a The king's death plunged Brit-, ain and the Commonwealth- 1st mourning. f A taxi-driver expressed the ! timent of many: "As if things haven't gone badly enough foe us since the war." Flags over much! of the world dipped to half staff. Even the Russians, in Berlin, join ed in this gestur ot respect- I - The former Duke of York cam to the throne as a shy, stammer- 4 ing man who never expected," ksor : wanted, to be King. He 4eok tit " scepter of office in December, 1936, at a moment when the whole institution of monarchy in Britain was - tottering, because of-the ate j dication of his eldest brother, Ed ward VTII, for love of BaJti-more-born divorcee, Mrs. WaJAw Warfield Simpson. He lived i te strengthen the tffrone toy - flit steady, quiet courage, and to win " the love and respect of hie milium of subjects. ! George's rein spanned i jekre of turbulent history. - -s - f Worn and wearied hy persiste illness, he died at the royal Res tate at Sandringham where i 1m was born 56 years ago. His vaVt, -John MacDonald, discovered the body when he took the King Ibis . usual early morning tea. Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were immediately awakened and told the news and a radio mee- sage was dispatched to Princese - Elizabeth in Kenya on a royal tour with her husband, the Dk of Edinburgh. -; ; The news was riven to tSte world some three hours later i- It came as a shock, even thouah-- it was widely known that he wee not in good health. Only yesterday -he had been rabbit hunting mm the Sandringham estate and there was no hint that his condition was any worse than usual, i Mood Clot Fatal ; f Coronary thrombosis a bleed . clot was believed to have been the immediate cause of death. Last -September surgeons removed 'the King's cancerous left lung. Tee years before that, he underwent an operation to relieve a circula tory ailment in one of 'his legs. His face was haggard and lined in recent months and his coadi tion had caused concern to I hie subjects. - Britons the length and breadth of the islands wept and paid the King tribute today in five siraple words: j "He was a good man." I Londoners slipped into churrhSr-black-bordered newspapers grip ped in their hands, to think &nd to pray. Shopkeepers ripped bright displays from their . windows and replaced them with more somber things. j His brother, now the Duke el Windsor, is sailing from New Verk -for Southhampton aboard j the Queen Mary Thursday night te attend the funeral. Both he and the Duchess were in sechraoa in their suite in the Waldorf Tower of New York. His secretary, Kiee Anne Seagrim, said the Duke was "terribly shocked and surprised." The Duchess, who has never been received by the royal fam ily will remain -tn the United States. ' ' - (Stories also on page 2.)1 . Elizabeth 9 0 0 . 4 9 yV r m i